I love great quotes, especially the short ones. In one or two lines, they can unleash your courage, open your heart, teach you simple yet profound wisdoms, and open up a whole new world of possibilities…
Time and again, they’ve never failed to pick me up when I fell, elevate my moods when I felt down, and inspire me to continue on my journey – to becoming who I truly am.
Here are some of my favorite quotes, from several enlightened women of the past and the present. Maybe you and I can write our own in the future.
1. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
2. The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it. ~ Roseanne Barr
3. Don’t talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay, I make the goddamn rules. ~ Maria Callas
4. Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, just harness your power to your passion. ~ Oprah
5. I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains. ~ Anne Frank
6. We can do no great things, only small things with great love. ~ Mother Teresa
7. There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. ~ Anais Nin
8. Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen. ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach
9. We are not held back by the love we didn’t receive in the past, but by the love we’re not extending in the present. ~ Marianne Williamson
10. Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that’s the one that is going to require the most from you. ~ Caroline Myss
11. A woman is like a tea bag – you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
12. The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen nor touched, but are felt in the heart. ~ Helen Keller
13. The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud. ~ Coco Chanel
14. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk more. ~ Erica Jong
15. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. ~ Anais Nin
16. The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. ~ Anna Quindlen
17. People with clenched fists cannot shake hands. ~ Indira Gandhi
18. If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough. ~ Oprah Winfrey
19. If you do not tell the truth about yourself, you cannot tell it about other people. ~ Virginia Woolf
20. You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try. ~ Beverly Sills
21. Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. ~ Marie Curie
22. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing at all. ~ Helen Keller
23. I have discovered that patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting. ~ Joyce Meyer
24. Make the most of what you have, when you have it, where you are. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
25. Leap and the next will appear. ~ Julie Cameron
26. I’ve learned that PMS is tough, but I’m tougher. ~ Jing Jin
What are your favorite quotes? Please share and inspire us!
Those are great quotes! It’s motivating me to put together a list of quotes that I can read to inspire and root me when I’m feeling down.
Here’s a few that I like:
“The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.”
– George Bernard Shaw
“My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant’s point of view.”
– H. Fred Dale
“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference”.
– Reinhold Niebuhr
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
– Ghandi
“The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
– Ghandi
“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading”
– Lao Tzu
“The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.”
– Robert M. Pirsig
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
– Confucius
“If you’re not laughing, then you’re not getting it.”
– Some Zen monk
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
– Ghandi
“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”
– Ghandi
I agree. Great quotes work like medicines. Thanks sharing these wonderful quotes! I’ll borrow some of them in our Daily Inspiration newsletter 🙂